My recollections come from a childhood reared in the Caribbean, at the edges of standardized Western culture, where daily struggle causes those standards to drift. In some ways my idyllic Jamaica no longer exists. An immigrant’s memory of their country is both frozen in time and lives a life of its own, where it perhaps comes to represent something else entirely. My art aims to pinpoint that fleeting image of a perfect landscape by its raw nature, and wondrous paradox. It is this desire for an ideal landscape that intrigues and invites me to interact with it.

An obsession with capitalism and consumption also informs my process. Objects whether functional or not infiltrate a space and bring into question their purpose or function.The accumulation of goods, luxurious lifestyles, socio-economic changes, and cultural development carry a political and social intent. Natural landscapes set the stage and are combined with these objects in question to accessorize and contextualize the environment. These materials consist of media, costuming, and props that range from handmade to manufactured, and natural to artificial. My performance art stems from a visual standpoint, where I aim to create a “tableau vivant” or a living picture. This is where I utilize scenarios informed by histories, political views and archetypes. I like to highlight traditions, cultural ideologies and the effects of migration and climate change. Often working with site-specificity from country to city, and from suburban to urban I hope to invite the viewer to question respect for societal and cultural norms. Most importantly, the state of our natural world.

CV

EDUCATIONHunter College, New York, N.Y. (M.F.A. in Combined Media 2005)
University of Florida / New World School of the Arts, Miami, F.L. (B.F.A. honors in Painting 1996)